Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...coming up stairs, and presently a postal card was thrust under my door. Alas! as I had feared, it was an invitation to come to the Dean's daily reception. After perusing it for a few moments, I determined to put off my visit till the afternoon. At five o'clock, on arriving at the Dean's office, to my astonishment, I found no one there. There I was, all alone, in the Secretary's room, with but a threshold between me and the President's office, - the seat of those Faculty meetings, which I could never help associating...
There are several ways in which this second University crew might be chosen, - each class-crew might send its best man, and they choose the other two; or, better, the crews might meet and elect a captain who would pick out from them five more men. The men would be already trained, so that it would only be necessary for them to row before the race until they had "fallen together...
...Higginson addressed the convention, strongly advocating the proposed plan of literary contests, and advising small beginnings and humble aims. Mr. C. D. Warner and Mark Twain were both present as supporters, and each made an address. A constitution was drawn up to go into effect upon its adoption by five different colleges. The time and place suggested for the opening contest was New York City January 7, 1875, so that, happening during the holidays, it will add still another attraction to the pleasure-giving metropolis. Only half the colleges represented had agreed to be bound by the action of their...
...than to those studying for a profession and constantly requiring notes of important lectures, in which each sentence contains a fact or suggestion not to be lost without injury. The life of professional men, too, presents many opportunities when the employment of a mode of writing four or five times quicker than any other will afford the much-needed hour or half-hour for rest and enjoyment. The lawyer in his cases, the minister in his sermons, the business man in his records and copies, the author in his daily jottings and quotations from books too rare or expensive...
...other educated young men of the country lies the remedy. It is for us to come forward, and by our efforts and example demonstrate to the people the possibility of self-government and the means by which they may be freed from the rule of political rings. Within five months more than one hundred and sixty men will be graduated from Harvard College and will be scattered throughout the country. Let these men employ the knowledge obtained here for the public good. Let them give time and thought and strength to the advancement of the welfare of their country...